Sash-fastener



` .(No Model.)

Il. L. BARBER. Sash Fastener.

' No. 239,696. Patented Appi| 5,'1ss|.

` ATTORNEYS.

N. PETERS, WIDTO-LITHOGRPHER. WASHINGTDN. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT *,G'EEICE.

EDWIN L. BAR-BER, OF LARWILL, INDIANA.

SASH-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 239,696, dated April 5, 1881.

Application tiled February 1, 1881. (No model.) l

` 2 is a front View, on a larger scale, showing parts of the sash broken away.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efticient means for holding the sashes ot' a window at any desired adjustment, and locking them when closed.

The invention covers certain peculiar features of improvement upon that form ot' sashholder in which a. bar is attached to the horizontal upperportion of the stationary windowframe and depends to the upper edge of' the bottom sash, and passes through a notch in the meeting-rail of the same, each sash being provided with an attachment to the rod, which permit the sashes to be adjusted up or down upon said rod to open or close the window.

My particular features ot' improvement consist, first, in employing a light flat bar, which has a permanent'set or curve toward the upper sash, so that any attempt to raise the lower sash will insure the rods bending against the frame of the upper sash, which braces the bar and stops its bending, instead of allowing it to bend outwardly and allowing the sashto be raised 5 andthe invention also further consists in the peculiar means for adjusting the screw of the upper sash to fasten or release said sash, as will be hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, A represents the holdingbar for the sashes. This is fastened to the horizontal upper portion ot' the stationary' frame of the window by screws which pass through screw-holes in a right-angular bend at the top of thisbar. Said bar hangs vertically' down immediately in front of middle mllion 1 or separating-bar of the sash, and extends to and into a vertical transverse channel or recess in the upper meetingrail of thelower sash. This V holdingbar I make of wrought metal, in the shape of a thin hat piece, with considerable spring or elasticity, which lies close tothe window-mulliou, and which bar has a permanent set orbend toward the upper sash. The object of this bend or set is as follows:

In order to make my sashholder light and this I give the bar a permanent set or bend" inwardly toward the upper sash, so that if the lower sash is t.strained upwardly the bend of the bar strikes the upper sash-frame, and all further lateral movement of the bar b eing arrested, the sash is securely held against such attempts. To connect the sashes adjustably to this bar I employ small castings B C, the upper one, B, of which is fastened by screws tothe top horizontal barof theuppersash, and the lower one, C, of whichis screwed upon the top of the meetingrail ot the lower sash. These castings have each a narrow slit or hole through them in vertical direction, 'to receive the stationary bar A, Vand are provided with set-screws D and E, which pass through screwthreaded holes in these castings and bear against the bar A, resting in the vertical slot. These castings B and C, it will be seen, inclose the bar A on all sides, so that when the screw bears against the bar there is no strain brought against the sash to open cracks between the sashes and let in cold air, but the strain of the screw is taken up in the casting. To regulate the adjustment of the screw D ofthe uppersash,I lix rigidly upon the outer end of this screw a wheel composed of a series of radial arms, a, bearing loops or eyes b at their outer ends. Then through the eyes of. the upper half of the arms I lace a cord, c, which is tied to one of the eyes at the top, to keep the cord from pulling through, and whose ends pass down through a looped guide or keeper, d, formed on the casting, and areprovided with tassels. By pulling one of these tassels the screw is turned in one direction and is made to clamp the bar A, while a pull upon the other tassel will turn the screw in the other direction and release the said bar.

The object of the wheel with arms c and eyes b is to make a single cord do for both tassels,

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and to avoid two points of attachment of the cord. Furthermore, after the end of the screw becomes somewhat worn away by abrasion, the screw must be adjusted closer into the bar, so as to make a slight turn hold the sash, and as the two ends ofthe cord must always rst connect with the wheel, so as to oscillate equally on both sides of the horizontal line, the cord must be readjusted in the wheel when the screw is turned farther in. This is readily permitted by the mode of lacing the cord through the eyes. Thus, in readjusting the cord, it is laced through more eyes on one side and taken out ot' some on the other.

For the sake of symmetry,l may use'a similar device on the lower sash to that just described; but as this is generally within reach ofthe hand it is not needed.

My invention may be used in connection with sashes having but a single glass, or with or bend toward the upper sash, combined with v fastenings upon the sashes, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the sliding connection for the sash and the set-screw, ot' a wheel fixed upon said set-screw, having radial arms a and eyes b, and a cord laced through said eyes and attached to the wheel, substantially 35 as shown and described.

E. L. BARBER. Witnesses:

EDwD. W. BYRN, GHAs. A. PETTIT. 

